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vice-president joe biden and wife jill will campaign in wisconsin. that begins live at 2:45 eastern time. later in the afternoon, mitt romney and paul ryan will hold a romney and paul ryan will hold a campaign
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i don't think they will raise it to -- >> joe biden may have been tipped it. he tipped it. it is the shummerplan . tax cuts will be gone and barack obama if someone passed the extension they will be gone. if mitt romney is reelected and you get a republican senate you will have an extension of one year of all of the bush tax cuts while governor romney works on the tax reform. i think we will get hit with is a pay roll tax cut that we got several years ago. they cut it from 6-4 that is a $1,000 on a family. >> we have gotten used to that. and no one is mentioning that. and a $2000 on a family making a thousand. this is tremendous hit and my understanding that both parties agreed that has to lapse. but at our economy of 1.4 that a tremendous growth. >> it is slower now than when the president justified pushing back the rate hikes. >> you cannot let taxes go up. >> isn't there more justification now? >> if you took economic reality and you took even the democratic idea of economics. you don't raise taxing on an economy that is slowing down to one percent. >> chuck schumer will
i don't think they will raise it to -- >> joe biden may have been tipped it. he tipped it. it is the shummerplan . tax cuts will be gone and barack obama if someone passed the extension they will be gone. if mitt romney is reelected and you get a republican senate you will have an extension of one year of all of the bush tax cuts while governor romney works on the tax reform. i think we will get hit with is a pay roll tax cut that we got several years ago. they cut it from 6-4 that is a...
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right now, as we welcome, a vice president joe biden and congressmen paul ryan. [applause] >> good evening, gentlemen. it is an honored to be here with both of you. i would like to begin with libya. on a rather somber note, one month ago tonight on the anniversary of 9/11, ambassador stevens and three other brave americans were killed in a terrorist attack in benghazi. the state department has made clear there were no protesters there. it was a preplanned assault by heavily armed men. massivehis a intelligence failure? >> chris stevens was one of our best. we will find and bring to justice the men who did this. we will get to the bottom of it and whatever the facts lead us, we will make clear, whatever mistakes were made will not be made again. you should take a look at his most important responsibility. that is caring for the national security of the country. take a look at how he has handled the issues of the day. on iraq, the president has said he would end the war. governor romney said that was a tragic mistake. we should have left 30,000 troops there. with r
right now, as we welcome, a vice president joe biden and congressmen paul ryan. [applause] >> good evening, gentlemen. it is an honored to be here with both of you. i would like to begin with libya. on a rather somber note, one month ago tonight on the anniversary of 9/11, ambassador stevens and three other brave americans were killed in a terrorist attack in benghazi. the state department has made clear there were no protesters there. it was a preplanned assault by heavily armed men....
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that's a fact check i'm sure joe is really upset about. the rest of it he probably wants to hear nothing about. john, you have been looking into this. paul ryan has been criticizing green pork for awhile but he also asked for money to create green jobs. some people might say this is practical. others might say hypocritical. >> that's where the line is. when the green pork was being given out, paul ryan went right up to the trough and asked for his. this is part of the problem of being a congressman. the part of being a member of congress is requesting money for your constituents. an ideological fiscal conservative like paul ryan is in a double bind. on the one hand he has to provide for his constituents. when he hits the campaign trail and rails against government spending, his accusations of hypocrisy not only for requests for green pork but also because here's a guy who spent his entire adult life working in government running against government spending. >> how much does this hurt paul ryan? do people understand that distinction? you mi
that's a fact check i'm sure joe is really upset about. the rest of it he probably wants to hear nothing about. john, you have been looking into this. paul ryan has been criticizing green pork for awhile but he also asked for money to create green jobs. some people might say this is practical. others might say hypocritical. >> that's where the line is. when the green pork was being given out, paul ryan went right up to the trough and asked for his. this is part of the problem of being a...
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biden is joe biden. he's authentic and real. he's state forward and he says what he thinks and he says what he means. >> mitch mcconnell criticizing style. more from mitt romney and former president bill clinton. >> the president watched the debate and thought the vice president did an excellent job presenting this administration's case. >> there was one person on stage last night who was thoughtful and respectful, steady, and poised. the other candidate, of course, just attacked. >> i kind felt for congressman ryan. he had to defend romney position that $716 billion in medicare savings in the president's budget that the congressmen voted for is some how a ripoff even though it was in his budget too. >> man he is good. for more on this debate and the struggle of the future of social security and medicare. let's go to errol lewis and thomas frank. gentlemen, thank you for being with us on "viewpoint" tonight. i came away from that debate thinking that the vice president really did the job he needed to do.
biden is joe biden. he's authentic and real. he's state forward and he says what he thinks and he says what he means. >> mitch mcconnell criticizing style. more from mitt romney and former president bill clinton. >> the president watched the debate and thought the vice president did an excellent job presenting this administration's case. >> there was one person on stage last night who was thoughtful and respectful, steady, and poised. the other candidate, of course, just...
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congressman paul ryan going up against president joe biden whose experience goes back with the bidding goes back 40 years. the really have much of an impact but tonight could be the big exception. gov. mitt romney announced in the polls after his strong performance. vice-president biden will likely try to make some lost ground up. tonight's topic, domestic and foreign possibilitpolicy. tot will be about the economy. an issue that the pundits say will likely decide this election. each campaign offers a vastly different approach to tackling the tough issues including how to lower the nation's 7.8% unemployment rate and how to rein in the national debt that tops $16 trillion. each nominee has 90 minutes to convince the voters that his to get is the best. from abcs moderator is marth news. >> good evening and welcome to the first and only vice- presidential debate of 2012. sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. i am honored to moderate this debate between two men who have dedicated much of their lives to public service. tonight's debate is divided between divided and domestic
congressman paul ryan going up against president joe biden whose experience goes back with the bidding goes back 40 years. the really have much of an impact but tonight could be the big exception. gov. mitt romney announced in the polls after his strong performance. vice-president biden will likely try to make some lost ground up. tonight's topic, domestic and foreign possibilitpolicy. tot will be about the economy. an issue that the pundits say will likely decide this election. each campaign...
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and if you are joe biden our boss on an off week. so ou have to knock it out of the park without saying anything crazy. andy is joining us from california. i am rooting for, i don't care if you are left or right from this we never had someone from fast-food world assume a cabinet position, and someone who is dominating the fast-food world for years and stays thin. andy, it is good to have you. what are you expecting out of paul ryan tonight? >> first of all, neil, it is great to be here, as soon as get a break you need to run out to a hardee's in danville, and get a burger. >> you are right they are here. paul ryan needs to stick to the big issues of a choice of 4 more years of the last 4 years, which we can't really deal with. to moving on to economic growth, and people having jobs, and people getting off welfare instead of encouraging them to be on welfare, he need to be careful to try not to address every inaccuracy or untruth that joe biden comes up with. if he handles it like the governor did in the original debate, states the p
and if you are joe biden our boss on an off week. so ou have to knock it out of the park without saying anything crazy. andy is joining us from california. i am rooting for, i don't care if you are left or right from this we never had someone from fast-food world assume a cabinet position, and someone who is dominating the fast-food world for years and stays thin. andy, it is good to have you. what are you expecting out of paul ryan tonight? >> first of all, neil, it is great to be here,...
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brit hume and joe trippi. okay, brit. your thoughts? >> well, you are right, governor romney came out. he was aggressive. when do you that, you are always in danger of seeming rude or... pugneighbors. i don't think he d. -- bug -- pugnacious. high seemed to display extraordinary knowledgeability. i don't think president obama had a bad night in the sense that he was way off his game. he was a lot like the president obama we are used to hearing. i don't think he seemed rusty. but i don't think he had the spark or the energy or the precision tonight that governor romney had. governor rom he in a good night. he didn't have a big moment that becomes a sound bite and affects how people look back on the debate. but this was a strong performance by governor romney. he needed one. i think he got it. >> joe? >> i think romney did himself a lot of good tonight. he was there on the issues. he knew his stuff. he didn't back down to the president or the moderator. and he didn't -- he didn't cross the line because you can do that and i think that wou
brit hume and joe trippi. okay, brit. your thoughts? >> well, you are right, governor romney came out. he was aggressive. when do you that, you are always in danger of seeming rude or... pugneighbors. i don't think he d. -- bug -- pugnacious. high seemed to display extraordinary knowledgeability. i don't think president obama had a bad night in the sense that he was way off his game. he was a lot like the president obama we are used to hearing. i don't think he seemed rusty. but i don't...
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but i think joe was likable. and i don't think that paul ryan came across as a kid. >> cenk: really? >> eliot: yes, i think joe biden's dexterity with facts was greater -- >> john: yeah i would say joe biden won on performance, but i agree paul ryan was relaxed. he didn't embarrass himself once. >> cenk: i thought he had talking points throughout. joe looked like a real human being, to your point. paul ryan every time you went to him, all right. these are the things i memorized, that's the sense i got. >> john: like i said before i think whoever looks like they are having the most fun is the winner, and on that front joe biden won. >> cenk: let's go to michael shure. >> president obama needed his vice president to come in there, state some facts, stated their case, and he seemed really proud of the administration and i think that showed tonight. i think that's really important when you are running for president to be proud of the job you have done. and i think that is one of the things that i'm going to take away
but i think joe was likable. and i don't think that paul ryan came across as a kid. >> cenk: really? >> eliot: yes, i think joe biden's dexterity with facts was greater -- >> john: yeah i would say joe biden won on performance, but i agree paul ryan was relaxed. he didn't embarrass himself once. >> cenk: i thought he had talking points throughout. joe looked like a real human being, to your point. paul ryan every time you went to him, all right. these are the things i...
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but i think joe was likable. and i don't think that paul ryan came across as a kid. >> cenk: really? >> eliot: yes, i think joe biden's dexterity with facts was greater -- >> john: yeah, i would say joe biden won on performance, but i agree paul ryan was relaxed. he didn't embarrass himself once. >> cenk: i thought he had talking points throughout. joe looked like a real human being, to your point. paul ryan every time you went to him, all right. these are the things i memorized, that's the sense i got. >> john: like i said before i think whoever looks like they are having the most fun is the winner, and on that front joe biden won. >> cenk: let's go to michael shure. >> president obama needed his vice president to come in there, state some facts stated their case, and he seemed really proud of the administration, and i think that showed tonight. i think that's really important when you are running for president to be proud of the job you have done. and i think that is one of the things that i'm going to take awa
but i think joe was likable. and i don't think that paul ryan came across as a kid. >> cenk: really? >> eliot: yes, i think joe biden's dexterity with facts was greater -- >> john: yeah, i would say joe biden won on performance, but i agree paul ryan was relaxed. he didn't embarrass himself once. >> cenk: i thought he had talking points throughout. joe looked like a real human being, to your point. paul ryan every time you went to him, all right. these are the things i...
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republican candidate paul ryan expects joe biden to come at him like a cannonball. >> biden was like there's going to be a pool there? i am more of a belly flop guy. cannonball? >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard-earned money. now meet jack. after 40 years, he finally saved enough to enjoy retirement. angie, the waitress at jack's favorite diner, is also enjoying his retirement. with just a little information, she's opened up a credit line, draining the equity in jack's home. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on your life. this is identity theft, and no one helps stop it better than lifelock. see, ordinary credit monitoring services tell you after your identity has been stolen. they may take 30 days to alert you-- too late for jack. lifelock has the most comprehensive identity theft protection available. if mary had lifelock's bank account alerts, she ma
republican candidate paul ryan expects joe biden to come at him like a cannonball. >> biden was like there's going to be a pool there? i am more of a belly flop guy. cannonball? >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard-earned money. now meet jack. after 40 years, he finally saved enough to enjoy retirement. angie, the waitress at jack's favorite...
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joe biden proved that last night. and as winston churchill once said, i like a man who grins when he fights. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> these are the folks who talk about 47% of the american people being unwilling to take responsibility. it's about time governor romney takes some responsibility. >> the vice president keeps the hits coming after his knockout debate with paul ryan. >> stop talking about how you care about people. show me something. >> richard wolffe on the education of congressman paul ryan. >> ronald reagan -- >> now you're jack kennedy? >> ronald reagan -- >> "now's" terri o'neal on the romney ticket's disaster for women. >> if the romney/ryan ticket is elected, should those who believe abortion should remain legal be worried? >> david cay johnston on ryan's sixth study lie. >> can you guarantee this math will add up? >> absolutely. six studies have guaranteed. >> and what's more disrespectful? lying to america or interrupting a guy who's lying to america? >> it was openly contemptu
joe biden proved that last night. and as winston churchill once said, i like a man who grins when he fights. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> these are the folks who talk about 47% of the american people being unwilling to take responsibility. it's about time governor romney takes some responsibility. >> the vice president keeps the hits coming after his knockout debate with paul ryan. >> stop talking about how you care about people. show me...
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but watch out for joe biden. middle class, beer drinking joe biden. find they motional middle class moment and say paul ryan, don't you know the people you are going to hurt? >> and paul, to your point, if they attack, you want them -- they both should be attacking upwards. >> they'll either both attack up, or, and this is bad for the principals, they may just get along having a civil conversation, not helping president obama or mitt romney. so they have to be contentious toward the guy at the top. >> one thing that hasn't been talked about so far is poor people. one of the things -- we talk about the middle class being destroyed. it's important that we remember that paul ryan actually has something to say about poor people. he wants to take away nutritionaprograms, i think if you want to talk about what's happening in scranton, what will help people in scranton is not what paul ryan is talking about. >> the debate is about to start. wolf? >> only a few seconds away from the start of the debate. a 42-year-old republican vice presidential nominee, a 69
but watch out for joe biden. middle class, beer drinking joe biden. find they motional middle class moment and say paul ryan, don't you know the people you are going to hurt? >> and paul, to your point, if they attack, you want them -- they both should be attacking upwards. >> they'll either both attack up, or, and this is bad for the principals, they may just get along having a civil conversation, not helping president obama or mitt romney. so they have to be contentious toward the...
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i think joe biden did. colorado and had the one good line raising fear on increases of middle-class taxes. >> -- paul r. ryan had one good line of reasoning here on increasing middle-class taxes. >> the republican line, good morning. >> thank you. i feel like joe biden in this debate was a little offensive and rude. it might have turned off a lot of people from his point. i thought paul ryan was a very well-prepared. he knew what he was talking about. i just thought joe biden came off like a 12-year-old. he got louder and more rude thinking that would change his point. the whole debate was a little weird and crazy. paul ryan said this is not what a real recovery looks like. i agree with that 100%. oh by the -- obama-bite and are not running a real recovery, there are running it into the ground. >> this is from the facebook page. from our twitter page. next is on our line for democrats is nick from columbus, indiana. >> i was very a impressed with what democrat can did it was talking about. that is our vice-
i think joe biden did. colorado and had the one good line raising fear on increases of middle-class taxes. >> -- paul r. ryan had one good line of reasoning here on increasing middle-class taxes. >> the republican line, good morning. >> thank you. i feel like joe biden in this debate was a little offensive and rude. it might have turned off a lot of people from his point. i thought paul ryan was a very well-prepared. he knew what he was talking about. i just thought joe biden...
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>> joe and i are from similar towns. he's from scranton, pennsylvania. i'm from janesville, wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is? it's 10%. the day you came into office it was 8.5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> that's not how it is, it's going down. >> did they inherit a tough situation? absolutely. but we're going in the wrong direction. look at where we are. the economy is barely limping along. it's growing at 1.3%. that's slower than last year and last year was slower than the year before. job growth in september was slower than it was in august and august was slower than july. we're heading in the wrong direction. 23 million americans are struggling for work today. 15% of americans are living in poverty today. this is not what a real recovery looks like. we need real reforms and that's what we're proposing. it's a five point plan. get america energy independent by the end of the decade. help people that are hurting get the skills to get the job they want. make trade work for america so we can make more things
>> joe and i are from similar towns. he's from scranton, pennsylvania. i'm from janesville, wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is? it's 10%. the day you came into office it was 8.5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> that's not how it is, it's going down. >> did they inherit a tough situation? absolutely. but we're going in the wrong direction. look at where we are. the economy is barely limping along. it's growing at 1.3%. that's slower than...
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joe biden coming up. he stepped in it a little bit this week with the comment about the middle class being buried the last four years. take a look. >> how they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years. how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts. >> two questions, is there more pressure on the vice president to be aggressive coming off the president's debate and are you worried about gaffes like that. >> well, look, i don't think that was a gaffe, george. i think what the vice president was talking about is what he's talked about every day which is a series of eight years of -- >> he said buried the last four years. >> well, we've been digging out for what was an avalanche of bad economic decisions over the past eight years during the bush administration, what mitt romney and paul ryan want to do is take us back to that exact same failed economic theory, talk down tax cut, eviscerating the investments we know
joe biden coming up. he stepped in it a little bit this week with the comment about the middle class being buried the last four years. take a look. >> how they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years. how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts. >> two questions, is there more pressure on the vice president to be aggressive coming off the president's debate and are you worried about...
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, the four americans who died in benghazi on september 11th, and this was romney talking about what joe biden had to say during that debate. >> he is doubling down on denial. we need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just having people brush this aside. when the vice president of the united states directly contradicts the testimony -- sworn testimony of state department officials, american citizens have a right to know just what's going on. >> let's take this from a political point of view. the vice president said in that debate we didn't know they wanted additional security in libya. the white house then says, well, we didn't -- by we, we mean the president and the vice president. is that adequate for a president of the united states or the vice president of the united states to look at the destinies for americans is and say, well, we didn't know they needed more security? >> well, candy, obviously there's a whole bunch of stuff impact this question. first and foremost, nobody wants to get to the bottom of exactly what happened more than this president and this administ
, the four americans who died in benghazi on september 11th, and this was romney talking about what joe biden had to say during that debate. >> he is doubling down on denial. we need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just having people brush this aside. when the vice president of the united states directly contradicts the testimony -- sworn testimony of state department officials, american citizens have a right to know just what's going on. >> let's take this from a...
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joe biden being joe biden, we got exactly what we want. we will have to see how barack obama fares in the next two. it will be a friday flat warning. we will not have any really big movement until after this election. you cannot govern from the extreme left or right. you can live there, but you have to govern from the center. we will have to wait until that happened. stuart: scott, thank you very much indeed. seeing the 27 year age difference between the candidates, it looked a little bit to me like a father yelling at his son. will that turn people off? joining me now, the author of, "obama zombies." twenty-one the youth vote last night? you watched the debate, i know you did? >> i think paul ryan alternately did. after the first presidential debate, barack obama lost 27-point and mitt romney gained ten points. it is only 15 points did. stuart: there is this 27 year age gap last night. paul ryan is 27 years younger. if anyone is the youth vote, it is paul ryan. did he win the youth vote? >> i think you have to look at joe biden as losing
joe biden being joe biden, we got exactly what we want. we will have to see how barack obama fares in the next two. it will be a friday flat warning. we will not have any really big movement until after this election. you cannot govern from the extreme left or right. you can live there, but you have to govern from the center. we will have to wait until that happened. stuart: scott, thank you very much indeed. seeing the 27 year age difference between the candidates, it looked a little bit to me...
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the senators, burst by ted kennedy, joe biden, they don't lay a hand on him really. and so he is so excellent at kerry and his questions through the hearing record and 71 is close and suddenly shortly before the vote is to take place on rehnquist and also a loose pile up at the same time, shortly before the voters to a core, music magazines on the supreme court reporter for "newsweek" is a really great guy and he comes up somehow with this memo from the jackson files, the memo were they to brown v. board of education. and it's a bombshell. and so, birch buyer, senator for a very liberal and great senator from indiana at that time is kind of the disappointed leading the fight against rehnquist. and they know it's going to be close. they probably also know they're going to go down in flames, but it's close. so easter is really pushing the city starts coming out. and nixon and his attorney general, john mitchell, who actually have kind of concoct good this whole rehnquist combination, a whole another story. it is fascinating. so nixon and mitchell start to worry that th
the senators, burst by ted kennedy, joe biden, they don't lay a hand on him really. and so he is so excellent at kerry and his questions through the hearing record and 71 is close and suddenly shortly before the vote is to take place on rehnquist and also a loose pile up at the same time, shortly before the voters to a core, music magazines on the supreme court reporter for "newsweek" is a really great guy and he comes up somehow with this memo from the jackson files, the memo were...
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. >> judy, this was the full joe biden. joe biden in full tonight. what you saw this evening, here at centre colleges with what people who have been watching him on the campaign trail, not just this year but the last 40 years in american politics has seen. he is demon strattive, at times over the top. he is what he is. some folks like t others don't. but it's raw, it's authentic and it's certainly real. look, i think he had some clear blows tonight on paul ryan, on substance, certainly on the issue about whether or not ryan wanted to have a stimulus in wisconsin for his district. on question about its entitlements in this country, certainly on the romney comment over the 47% of americans who don't pay taxes. the big question to me is was biden's bidenism, his mannerism, his reaction on so many of those shots that we saw on our tv screen tonight, does that overshadow some of what i think were some good moments of substance tonight for democrats. >> you're home tonight in kentucky but you have been spending time on the road traveling not only with mitt
. >> judy, this was the full joe biden. joe biden in full tonight. what you saw this evening, here at centre colleges with what people who have been watching him on the campaign trail, not just this year but the last 40 years in american politics has seen. he is demon strattive, at times over the top. he is what he is. some folks like t others don't. but it's raw, it's authentic and it's certainly real. look, i think he had some clear blows tonight on paul ryan, on substance, certainly on...
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ryan. >> joe and i are from similar towns. he's from scranton, pennsylvania, i'm from jane, wisconsin. do you know what the unemployment in scranton is today? >> i sure do. >> it's 10%. you know what it is the day you came in? 8.5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> that's not how it is in america, it's going down. >> his two-minute answer, please. >> did they come in and inherit a tough situation? absolutely. but we are going in the wrong direction. look where we are. the economy is barely limping along. it's growing at up wit1.3%. job growth in september was slower than august and august was slower than july. we're heading in the wrong direction. 23 million americans are struggling for work today. 15% of americans are living in poverty today. this is not what a real recovery looks like. we need real reforms for a real recovery and that's exactly what mitt romney and i are proposing. it's a five-point plan. get america energy independent by the end of the decade. help people who are hurting get the skills they need
ryan. >> joe and i are from similar towns. he's from scranton, pennsylvania, i'm from jane, wisconsin. do you know what the unemployment in scranton is today? >> i sure do. >> it's 10%. you know what it is the day you came in? 8.5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> that's not how it is in america, it's going down. >> his two-minute answer, please. >> did they come in and inherit a tough situation? absolutely. but we are going in the wrong...